How climate change breakdown terminates the concept of development
When Rupert Read first appeared on TUC Radio with his talk: This Civilization is Finished – So what is to be done – he drew a huge response. Here is a professor and well established intellectual who risks arrest in his association with the Extinction Rebellion climate change movement in England. XR use civil disobedience to make governments, and really everyone, declare climate change emergencies and act on them.
Even in September 2019 Professor Rupert Read – in front of an academic audience at the prestigious University College London feels compelled to say: “I come here with a message many of will find hard not to resist.”
But, as the urgency grows to deal with climate change, academia is changing. Rupert Read was chosen to give a prestigious lecture and he is welcomed as friend and colleague by Prof. Brad Blitz of University College London. Rupert Read is teaching Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He is a long time Green Party politician.
Date 9/10/2019
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